I imagine many of you, if you have followed me for awhile, remember my ordeal with the iphone. Well, a few days ago, I bought another one for my brother. Last week, on Monday October 22nd, I sent it by Global Express Mail to him. The tracking service indicates that it left the US on Monday, but it didn't enter the Spanish international office until Friday. I was tracking it and wondered where it's been all these days? Now I know.
*** IT'S BEEN STOLEN ***
Check it out by yourself, at the Correos website or at the U.S. Postal Service, package number EB816886559US. Leaving International Office in US: Monday 22nd. Entering International Office at Destiny: Friday 26th. Where was it all those days? It was being open and robbed. Maybe it was stolen over the weekend at Customs but it really doesn't matter.
Some motherfucking thief in Correos, probably using a scanner or an X-ray machine to pick it out, opened it nicely, stole the phone, and closed it up again with tape. And the package has followed its way until today, when my brother picked it up and found it empty.
I think it's a shame that in the 21st century, in a service like Correos, in a first-world country like Spain, there are still thieves robbing packages, and it can't be trusted that a stupid package with a fucking $400 phone arrives safely. There's some son of a bitch in Correos getting a nice extra paycheck reselling stolen merchandise. And of course, in Correos nobody accepts any responsibility, since they are funcionarios, [State workers, tenured for life, can't be fired] so what do they care? It's a royal shame.
Now you know, if you have to send a package which is worth more than 5 euro, use SEUR or MRW [Spanish private companies, similar to FedEx or UPS], because the chances of your package being robbed in Correos are high. At least in private companies they do care if their employees steal.
